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Schools have derived their legal powers to regulate student health services through an evolutionary process. Statutory law generally provides the authority for school boards to hire medical personnel to provide health services. In addition, the legal power to provide health services has evolved from the police powers of the states, through the fourteenth amendment guarantee to property rights, and in response to societal needs and expectations.;The present study was conducted to investigate the current status of health services in public schools in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and to determine the level of knowledge of legal issues related to the delivery of health services in schools by public school principals.;The study involved responses from surveys received from 208 principals (58% of the 360 randomly sampled elementary, middle, and high school principals in small, medium, and large Virginia schools). In response to the research question regarding minimal competency in principals' knowledge of law related to the delivery of health services in Virginia, data revealed that only six out of 208 were minimally competent. No statistical differences were found based on schools with or without licensed health care providers. Recommendations are made for future research.

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This study however is confined to the Quarter-mile Intermediate Hurdles, as we know it today, an event for which, besides having a great deal of technical knowledge the participant must also be a highly trained individual. Even in Greek times, though, the individuals would train themselves hard in order to be better equipped to face the task which was in front of them. This, however, is the only similarity which exists between ancient Greek athletes and the modern day conception of the Quarter-mile Hurdles.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1934. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1934. / Includes bibliographical references.

<p> The purpose of this study was to determine if any relationship exists between low socioeconomic status (SES) and poor physical health. Thirty (n = 30) participants ages 11 and 12 were chosen for this study. Fifteen participants (n = 15) were from the high SES group and fifteen participants (n = 15) were from the low SES group. Each student underwent a battery of tests that were conducted using TriFit 700. TriFit 700 is an interactive software that allows students to perform different physical tests for which they were assigned a score. The 4 different tests were the bicep curl test (strength), sit-and-reach test (flexibility), body composition assessment (body fat percent), and 1 mile walk/run test (cardiovascular assessment). After completion of these tests, each student was also assigned an overall health score. A MANOVA test was run to determine how the participants in the low SES category and the high SES category compared in each of the areas tested. There was no statistical difference between the two groups in the strength category, the flexibility category, percentage of body fat category or the overall health score. This study did find, however, that a statistical significance exists between the two groups in the VO2 max category. The higher SES group outperformed the low SES group at p &lt; .0083.</p><p>

The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of an educational program about the selected subjects of basic nutrition, body composition, and management of eating and exercise behaviors on reducing attitudes associated with bulimia in college-aged women.;One hundred and fifty first year women at the University of Richmond in Virginia were invited to participate in a brief yet comprehensive instructional program designed to provide information about eating and exercise behaviors and to enhance self-esteem and foster positive feelings about the physical self.;An instrument called the Body Cathexis Scale was used to measure any changes that might have occurred as a result of this program.;A two-factor analysis of variance was used to analyze results of the study. Responses from individual interviews were also used to assess the effectiveness of this program.;It was hypothesized that the subjects exposed to the educational intervention program would exhibit greater changes in cathexis scale scores than those subjects who were not exposed.;It was concluded from the analyses performed that the subjects exposed to the intervention program exhibited a significantly greater positive change in cathexis scale scores than those who were not exposed to the program. The data support the conclusion that the educational intervention program was significant in reducing the attitudes associated with bulimic behavior.;Further study is needed to evaluate the effectiveness of this program compared to others of a similar nature. In addition, an evaluation of the effects of this type of program upon men and women of all ages is needed.

Health education uses a holistic, multi-dimensional perspective (Hoyman, 1961; Donatelle, 1991; Hales, 1992). In recent years an emergent issue in health education is concern for disproportionate representation among the human dimensions--emotional, social, physical, intellectual, spiritual. Discussion occurs over the apparent underrepresentation of spiritual health in health education materials (Chandler & Kolander, 1990). While the professional literature contains articles discussing the under-representation of spiritual health (Jose & Taylor, 1986; Bensley, 1991), no empirical studies are available to assess the current status of spiritual health in health education materials or the spiritual health attitudes of health educators. This study provides empirical data on the status of spiritual health in health education materials and health educators' attitudes towards spiritual health in the university and college setting. A descriptive research study was done on the university and college members of The Association for the Advancement of Health Education (AAHE). A spiritual health survey was developed to provide insights into AAHE university/college health educators and sent to 500 random AAHE members nationally. This study was pretested for surface validity. A response rate of 52% (N=256) was achieved. The survey covered: (a) spiritual health attitudes, (b) attitudes toward including spiritual health in college general health courses, (c) current practices about including spiritual health in curriculum, and (d) spiritual health training. The major findings are: 1. respondents expressed attitudes that supported spiritual health's importance and influence on the wellbeing of an individual; 2. respondents expressed concerns about including spiritual health in college general health courses, but supported the concept; 3. of those respondents who currently teach a college general health course, 65.6% (N=82) include spiritual health; 4. spiritual health is currently included in college courses on a limited bases 5. a connection exists between spiritual health training experiences and respondents' attitudes toward spiritual health.